2015 Basketball Championship News


March 1, 2015
IRVING, Texas - With the score knotted at 67 inside of three minutes, Texas Lutheran University surged ahead and held on late to defeat Centenary College, 80-75. in the championship game of the SCAC Men's Basketball Tournament Sunday afternoon on the campus of the University of Dallas.

March 1, 2015
IRVING, Texas - Southwestern University jumped out to a 39-22 halftime lead and never looked back as the Pirates won their first Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference women's basketball tournament title with a 71-58 victory over Trinity University Sunday on the campus of the University of Dallas.

February 28, 2015
IRVING, Texas - Leading by nine with 1:30 remaining, top-seeded Southwestern University saw its lead shrink to two, but the Pirates held off a surging Schreiner University squad in the waning seconds to earn the 76-69 victory in Saturday's first semifinal of the 2015 SCAC Women's Basketball Tournament.



2014 Basketball Championship News


March 2, 2014
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Tournament MVP Robert Kitzginer had 22 points and eight rebounds to lead Trinity University to an 82-70 victory over Centenary College in the championship game of the 2014 SCAC Men's Basketball Tournament.

March 2, 2014
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Tournament MVP Karisa Cantu hit a 12-footer with 2.3 seconds remaining to give Texas Lutheran University a 54-52 victory over Trinity University in the championship game of the 2014 SCAC Women's Basketball Tournament.

March 1, 2014
SAN ANTONIO, Texas - Historically close balloting produced the first tie in the 23-year history of the award as senior guard Jonathan Blount of Centenary College and senior guard AJ Myres of Schreiner University were selected as SCAC Men’s Basketball Co-Players-of-the-Year in exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC).



2013 Basketball Championship News


February 24, 2013
SHERMAN, Texas - The Trinity Tiger men;s basketball team won its second consecutive Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship with a 60-55 overtime thriller over Colorado College on Sunday afternoon.

February 24, 2013
SHERMAN, Texas - The Trinity University women's basketball team earned its first Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship since 2005 with a 77-65 victory over Southwestern University on Sunday afternoon.

February 23, 2013
SHERMAN, Texas - Top seeds, Trinity University and Colorado College, advanced to the 2013 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Championship game with their semifinal victories on Saturday night.



2012 Basketball Championship News


February 26, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Trinity University Tiger men's basketball team beat Centre College 61-50 to win the 2012 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship on Sunday afternoon at Bill Battle Coliseum, on the campus of Birmingham-Southern College.

February 26, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Behind a team-high 14 points from SCAC tournament MVP Maggie Prewitt, the Centre College Colonels won their fifth Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference women's basketball championship and first since 2001 with a 60-48 win over Millsaps in the championship game.

February 25, 2012
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Birmingham-Southern College is playing host site to the 2012 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference men's semifinal basketball games.



2011 Basketball Championship News


February 27, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. - The Centre College Colonels survived a furious DePauw University second half comeback attempt and earned the school's third straight Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship with a 75-63 win over rival DePauw.

February 27, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. - Tenth-ranked DePauw closed the first half with a 16-6 run and opened the second with an 8-2 stretch to pull away from Hendrix on the way to an 80-71 win in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Tournament championship game.

February 26, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. - The Eastern Division's top two seeds, No. 1 Centre College and No. DePauw University, will meet for the second year in a row in the the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference tournament championship game and the league's automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Championship.



2010 Basketball Championship News


February 28, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. - The Centre College Colonels, the East's top seed, edged the second seeded DePauw University Tigers 60-56 to lay claim to the program's third Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship in the last four years.

February 28, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. - The 14th-ranked DePauw University Tigers won their ninth Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference championship, with a 60-37 win in the championship game over the Centre College Colonels.

February 27, 2010
JACKSON, Miss. - The East's top two seeds, Centre College and DePauw University, won their semifinal match-ups on Saturday to advance to the SCAC Championship game. Centre defeated Trinity University 62-44 while DePauw beat Austin College 53-47.



2009 Basketball Championship News


March 1, 2009
CONWAY, Ark. - Centre senior guard Kris Bentley tied an SCAC Tournament single-game record with eight three pointers and added 31 points as the Colonels won its second SCAC Tournament championship with a 72-67 win over the Southwestern University Pirates.

March 1, 2009
CONWAY, Ark. - Behind senior and Tournament MVP Tina Grace's 18-point, 10-rebound double-double, the Oglethorpe University Stormy Petrels shot an SCAC Tournament record 58.9 percent in defeating Trinity University 82-65 in the SCAC Championship game.

February 22, 2009
SEWANEE, Ga. - The SCAC office today announced the bracket for the 2009 men's basketball tournament, which will be begin Friday, Feb. 27 in Conway, Arkansas.